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Financial Times:
Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds  —  Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push  —  Melissa Heikkilä in London …
David Keohane / Financial Times:
SoftBank sold its entire Nvidia stake, or ~32M shares, in October for $5.8B and part of its T-Mobile stake for $9.2B, boosting Q2 profit to $16.2B, above est.  —  Net profit doubles to $16bn on gains from OpenAI and PayPay holdings  —  Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group has sold its entire stake …
The Information:
Sources: Apple delays the next iPhone Air, originally set for fall 2026, after the first model sold below expectations and a portion of inventory remains unsold
Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:
A Danish court sentences a man for sharing 347+ copyrighted nude scenes on Reddit featuring 100+ actresses and 25TB+ of pirated content via a torrent tracker  —  A Danish court has handed down a historic verdict, convicting a Reddit moderator in the country's first-ever criminal case for violating copyright's “right of respect”.
More: 404 Media.  Forums: r/Piracy
Vogue:
Apple and Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake launch the $150+ iPhone Pocket, a 3D-knitted fabric accessory, in Apple's first fashion deal since Hermès' in 2015  —  It's no secret that Steve Jobs's favorite fashion designer was Issey Miyake.  The former Apple CEO adopted …
Reuters:
A Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license; OpenAI can appeal  —  A German court on Tuesday sided with the country's music rights society GEMA in a closely watched copyright case against U.S.-based artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Search and browser startup Brave's CBO says it passed $100M in annualized revenue in Q1, and had 100M MAUs as of September, up from 77M at the end of 2024  —  Consumer-focused AI developers such as OpenAI and Perplexity are jockeying for a share of the browser market, now dominated by Google's Chrome.
Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal:
Sony reports Q2 revenue up 4.6% YoY to ~$20.3B, net profit up 6.7% YoY to ~$2.02B, 3.9M PS5s sold, and raises its FY operating profit forecast by 7.5% to ~$9.3B  —  Sony 6758 5.51%increase; green up pointing triangle Group raised its earnings forecasts after a stronger-than-expected second quarter …
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Docs: Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses, or ~75% of revenue, that year before turning a profit in 2030  —  Financial documents from both companies show the different approaches they are taking to the AI boom
CRN:
Intel CTO and AI officer Sachin Katti says he is leaving the company after four years to join OpenAI; Intel says CEO Lip-Bu Tan will take over its AI efforts  —  Intel CEO made Katti the company's chief technology and artificial intelligence officer in April.

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JD Knapp / The Wrap:
CBS News 24/7's 60-person unionized staff begins a 24-hour walkout with support from WGAE, a week after delivering a strike pledge to management

Financial Times:
Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith agrees to buy the entire 26.9% stake in The Economist Group held by Lynn Forester de Rothschild, sources say for ~£300M

The Independent:
Amid his lawsuit against the BBC, Trump accuses the broadcaster of using AI to tamper with his January 6 speech and criticizes its coverage of the war on Iran

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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Meta releases Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition, a suite of AI models handling automatic speech recognition for 1,600+ languages, vs. OpenAI Whisper's 99
Sander Lutz / Decrypt:
The US Treasury and IRS issue guidance allowing Wall Street crypto products to offer staking rewards under a new safe harbor, easing institutional participation
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
CoreWeave reports Q3 revenue up 134% YoY to $1.36B, above $1.29B est., net loss down 69% YoY to $110M, and forecasts FY revenue below est.; CRWV drops 5%+
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
Meta says it will discontinue Facebook's Like and Share buttons for websites on February 10, 2026, since usage “declined as the digital landscape has evolved”
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